Pokѐmon Journey I: Violet's Trial

Chapter 7: A New Book

Violet's Point of View:

"You know, you're a really hard person to find Violet." Alex glared as he and Vince approached me with their pokemon. "After we found out you left Pewter once we got there, we were stuck until we got our first gym badge."
"Then we get sent on a wild farfetch'd chase to find you through Mt. Moon and Cerulean City, thankfully a few people pointed us in the right direction to find you," Vince continued.
"Okay… so you found me," I concluded. "Now what are you going to do about it?"
"Battle you and show you that you can't go out there alone," Alex replied instantly.
"I told you time and time again, I don't need a fucken babysitter!" I screeched at him. "Now I've had a long day and I'd like to go rest if you don't mind. Get out of my way; I need to head over to the pokemon center for the night."
"Not until you realize that you need our protection!"
"What protection? I've faced Team Rocket plenty of times to know that you aren't needed to protect me!" When I finished my rant and looked over their blank faces, I realized what I said. "Damn it!"
"Pika pi pikachu pika." Amber said worriedly.
"Yeah, that was stupid, next time I do something like that or if I'm about to, hit me, okay?" Amber nodded and I turned back to the guys as I watched as their faces turned from blank to beat red in anger.
"YOU WHAT?" they both shouted and they're pokemon agreed with them at their sides. I really didn't need or want to listen to this at the moment. With the zubat safe up at Bill's and the day finally over, I just wanted to get to bed, but those boys are just too stubborn.
In the mean time, while I wasn't paying attention to the rants given to me (most of all by Alex) I pulled out my pokedex to find out what pokemon they had at their sides. I started with the one that was next to Vince and discovered it looked a lot like Bulbasaur. Ivysaur, the seed pokemon and the evolved form of bulbasaur. The plant bulb on its back absorbs nutrients and will blossom into a large, beautiful flower as it grows. There are no currently known ivysaur nests. When I looked over the pokemon that used to be a cute little bulbasaur, I was shocked to see more of a fighter in it now. Ivysaur's bulb on its back had now turned pink with its frilled leaves that used to be around that flower when it was still a bulbasaur loosely hung. Its skin was still the same color, but the pokemon itself was larger to nearly double its size and its teeth looked a little sharper from the two I saw hanging over the edges of its lips.
I pointed my pokedex then at Alex's pokemon that looked like a darker and older version of Squirtle. Wartortle, the turtle pokemon and the evolved form of squirtle. It often hides in water to stalk unwary prey. For fast swimming, it moves its ears to maintain balance. There are no current wartortle nests known. I glanced up from the screen and saw the image of the newly evolved water pokemon. It had sharper teeth now that hung over the edge of its lips, which were now (along with the rest of its body) was a deeper blue, almost a royal blue color with its tan plastron and its brown shell and a tail and was I'm guess is its ears came off its head looking like a fluffy wave of skin and fur.
"Will you pay attention when we're scolding you?" Alex snapped and brought me out of my daze of listening to the pokedex and ignoring the guys.
"Why would I do that?" I questioned in an annoyed tone. "Besides, I'm not waiting around here for you two to just take me back to town." I looked over on my shoulder to my pokemon. "Amber, thundershock! Amethyst-"
"Char! Char char char." Amethyst halted us in our plans and I looked down at her. "Char char char char, char char char."
"Huh, well, if you want to try it that way, the floor is all yours Amethyst, I just want a way out, but if you can pull that off, I'll be happy." The guys looked at us worriedly as I stood behind my pokemon.
"Char, char char." She nodded and puffed up her cheeks, the guys waited for the longest of time as she continued to take in as much air as possible.
"Amber! Now!" She and I both took a great long breath of air and held it just as my shiny charmeleon let loose a giant cloud of smoke from her mouth. Apparently it was one of her recently learned attacks called 'smokescreen', to help escape certain pokemon and people. Hey, I'm not complaining.
While the way was dark, I felt Amethyst grab my wrist with her own clawed hand and she pulled me through the smoke. Amber held on tightly to my shoulder as we were pulled out of the smoke and we rushed back into the city. I guess I won't be staying the night here.
With the boys lost from sight, we rushed over to the pokemon center and returned our key to our room without the nurse noticing (I didn't need her telling the guys what I'd done; it'd make it easier this way.) It was after that that we took off into the city and hurried toward the nearest way to the southern part of the city, which happened to be by a house with lots of police around it.
"Hey you!" I turned my head quickly to the voice of a female police person and waited impatiently as she walked over to me. "What are you doing out this time of night?"
"I'm a trainer, officer," I told her. "I just got back from visiting Bill on route twenty-five and I was planning to head to the next town, camping somewhere in between if I get tired before I reach there."
"I'd suggest against it miss, this house here was just robbed by Team Rocket." She gestured to the mugged building behind her. "They lost they're manuals of teaching techniques on how to teach moves to certain pokemon, dig in particular with their line of business, and the owner, against our wishes, ran after them. With these criminals at large, we're having all people, bystanders and trainers alike, staying within homes or the pokemon center until we're cleared the area, now head back the way you came." I raised my eye brow at the woman and crossed my arms.
"Didn't you just tell me a minute ago that you were suggesting that I go back and now you're demanding it of me? Please make up your mind, I'm still planning on heading to the next city and I'd like to be out there soon if you don't mind." I saw the woman's face turn red in rage as she glared at me while I kept a somewhat calm face and composure about me (with a little rage and lack of patience in between).
"Why you ungrateful little brat." The woman hissed under her breath, trying to keep her colleagues from hearing her. "We're trying to protect your life here."
"You know, I've had two other people tell me that more often since I started my journey then you probably realize or care, and I don't need a third." I told her stiffly. "But here's the thing, I don't need or want your protection. I've faced off against a few Team Rocket grunts and they aren't all that tough, and that's not bragging, that's fact."
The woman was shocked as she took my words in. "You faced… Team Rocket?"
I groaned and walked around the woman. "That's it, I'm outta here." Amethyst followed after me and I rubbed the fur on top of Amber's head as I walked toward the exit of the city that led south to route five.

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In the mist of the night, I traveled south down route five toward the underground path that Misty had told me of to get to Vermilion City. I'd only seen once house along the way, one that apparently looked after and raised pokemon for others, a daycare so to say. I had no need or desire to leave my pokemon there, this way my journey; I wanted to face it on my own, deal with my own mistakes, now matter how bad they may be.
In a way, I hated that daycare with the same hatred I felt for my family and friends right now, the way they try to place me beneath them and leave me in the protection and leadership of another rather then themselves, it drives me insane to think about how my life would be different and hell like if I had listened to them. Sure I wouldn't always be on the run from them now, but I'd rather be as I am them some sort of trapped animal.
I'm a hot head, I'll admit that, it doesn't always help me make the best choices, it sometimes gets me in loads of trouble, but that's just who I am. I butt heads with anyone who gets in my way and tells me what to do because I hate the feeling of being beneath someone. If I can't be a leader, then I'd rather be an equal, because I refuse anything lower.
I shook my head, I needed to be focused. Team Rocket grunts weren't that much to deal with, but they could be annoying and do something behind your back if you're not careful. I kept my eyes open for any signs of danger while my pokemon took a rest, Amber slept in my arms and Amethyst calmly walked at my side, saving whatever energy she had for later should I need her help.
I finally made it to where I saw the large building that would lead into Saffron City and the small building next to it that took me under the city. I walked up to the smaller building and reached for the doorknob when I heard shouting in the building next door. It woke Amber up in a heart beat and Amethyst growled.
"Let's go you two; it's probably that Team Rocket member that was in Cerulean." My team nodded to me and we hurried over to the large building. Inside was a man behind a counter, dressed in guard uniform, and he jumped over the counter toward two men that were fighting in the middle of this passing building. One was dressed in civilian clothes, similar to a hiker, and the other was a Team Rocket member. The two men other then the Team Rocket member lashed out against him in punches and kicks before the villain pulled out a pokeball and threw it, from it came a strange fighting type pokemon that was the size of a small child, but looked ripped when it came to its muscles. I pulled out my pokedex and took in the information about the pokemon. Machop, the superpower pokemon. Its whole body is composed of muscles. Even though it's the size of a human child, it can hurl one-hundred grown-ups. It loves to build its muscles and trains in all styles of martial arts to become even stronger. Machop nests are common, but only in the Rock Tunnel and Victory Road caves.
Now that I knew what I was facing, I had Amethyst jump forward with her metal claw attack. She knocked the poor pokemon back and it hit the back wall of the building before it slowly got back up to its feet. The two men I was helping backed away from the fight, knowing they no longer could help now that pokemon were involved.
The Team Rocket member forced his pokemon to rush at us with a mega punch; I saw its fist light up and watched as it raced toward us. Amethyst didn't even flinch with the punch came at her and she blocked it in her palm. The pokemon stood stunned as Amethyst and I both grinned madly.
"Ember." I gave the command and my pokemon easily blasted the machop with a powerful fire on its face. When the fire stopped brewing, Amethyst released the pokemon's fist and watched as it fell to the ground with its light blue face now scotched black.
"Char! Char!" Amethyst flexed her claws and called out, excited to face another opponent. The Team Rocket grunt growled and called back its BBQ'd pokemon and sent out another, this one was brown on its lower half and yellow on its upper half. It was a larger pokemon that had a long dangling nose and short pointy ears. It smiled as it looked at us.
I pulled out my pokedex and recorded the data. Drowzee, the hypnosis pokemon. It puts enemies to sleep, then eats their dreams. Occasionally it may get sick from eating only bad dreams. It is skilled at hypnotism. Drowzee nests are not common, but there have been reports of their nests on route eleven.
Wow, I've never faced a psychic type before. This was no time to think about that though, I needed to take the Rocket down. The drowzee itself was just simply moving around its arms in a wavy motion in the spot it stood in. I guess it relied more on its psychic attacks then any physical ones.

"Drowzee, use pound!" The rocket shouted. I felt my eyebrow rise on its own accord and watched as the thing clumsily bound forward toward Amethyst. I heard Amethyst sigh before me before she lashed out at the pokemon with a simple metal claw, hitting it right across the face that threw it into the side wall over the counter the guard was behind before. The villain jumped in his skin as I turned to look back at him.

"I think those books you stole belong to that man right there." I pointed my thumb at the man that was dressed like a hiker and the Team Rocket member dropped the couple books he hand on him before he bolted into the city.

I snorted before I walked over to where he had dropped the books and turned back to the men in the passage with me. "I think these belong to you." I told him, handing him the books.

"Trainer, you are my hero!" The man was thrilled and took the books easily from my arms. "Oh now I wish I had some way to repay you…"

"Oh, don't worry about that, Team Rocket isn't much to worry about with pokemon like mine. And I'm just a beginning trainer that has two badges," I replied to him.

"Hmm… I still think you deserve something for your efforts, why don't you take this?" The man handed me one of the books in his arms, a book on certain moves that I could teach to other pokemon.

"But, you just chased that Team Rocket member all the way back here just to get that book back!" I argued and tried to put the book back into his arms. He would let me.

"Its alright, I have this other one, and I've already planned on getting another set from the person I got these from. Please, I want you to have it and use it, plus," he took the book in my hands and opened it to a bookmarked page that was where it showed me how to teach a pokemon to learn 'dig' and which pokemon could learn it. "This move is called dig, it a ground type attack where a pokemon buries itself in the ground and then attacks from below, its super effective to fire, electric, rock and steel types. It would help you at Vermilion City's gym."

I sighed; I knew he wouldn't give in no matter how much I argued. "Alright." I quietly agreed. "I'll take the book."

"Oh thank you dear child!" the man said. "I know you'll enjoy this book, it will help you more then I think you think it will."

"Oh, I know it will, I just feel guilty for taking it."

"Well don't feel that way my dear, as I said, more are coming in a new order." He then turned to look toward the door we came in. "Now that I've got my book back, I'd best get back to town, the police most likely won't be very happy that I left on my own to get back my books."

"I didn't listen to them; they wanted to keep me in the city," I muttered. "It's the reason why I'm here at this time."

"I don't doubt it, you don't look like the type to listen well to others, you have a bit of a rebellious feeling to you." He chuckled shortly before he laughed. "Now I'd better go, good bye my dear! Thank you for all your help!" He turned to head out the door back onto route five when he suddenly stopped and turned back to face me. "Oh, what's your name?"

I smiled. "Violet." I replied simply. "Violet Vilmos from Pallet Town."

"Thank you, Violet." The man ducked out the door and I sighed, I rubbed my temples and shook my head. Tiredness was starting to affect me and I was feeling the affects of it, headaches and a desire to close my eye lids. I haven't felt this tired in a long time.

"Let's go you two; I'm going to crash soon." I muttered to my pokemon and they nodded, Amber even being kind enough to jump onto Amethyst's shoulder and off of mine so I wouldn't be weighed down by her as I traveled. The guard of the pass to Saffron City had asked us to leave after the commotion was over so he wouldn't get in trouble (and he was making sure no one got in or out of the city because of a Team Rocket problem they had) and we walked back out onto route five and walked into the small building, the one that led underground to the underground path.

There wasn't much inside the building, just a young girl that apparently was looking for some pokemon named nidoran , which I hadn't seen yet, but I told her I'd keep an eye out for it and its areas. I passed by her and walked into the underground path that was as strait long pathway that led under Saffron city and led to route six, just before Vermillion City.

I was getting more tired by the minute as we got closer and closer to the end of the tunnel, my pokemon seemed to be fine (especially since Amber took naps while I was walking and Amethyst just is a late to bed early riser anyway.) I yawned too many times to count and I actually asked my pokemon to stop once we made it outside of the underground path so I could rest a moment. Amethyst and Amber looked at me worriedly as I sat down and my eyes closed a few times before Amethyst would shake me awake.

"Char char?" Amethyst asked as she shook my near slumber body once more.

"I'm fine Amethyst, just tired. Today's been too long of a day." I sighed. "Let's just camp here for the rest of the night, I don't know how much further I can go in the state I'm in."

"Pika? Pika pi pikachu. Pi pika?" my pikachu questioned lightly.

"If I remember correctly young lady, you got to have a nap or two today." I lightly glared at her, but she brushed it off and watched me worriedly as I lay down on the ground.

"Char… char char?" Amethyst questioned me.

"You think you can handle carrying me to the next town girl? I don't want you to end up hurting yourself," I told her. She shook her head and crouched down before me, her arms waiting to hold onto my legs. I finally gave in and let her help place me on her back and nearly sit on her tail. I wrapped my arms around her neck and Amber then jumped to the ground, prepared to walk the rest of the way to town.

Amethyst was considerably slower with me on her back, but she still kept going, she seemed fine walking in such a weird way while carrying her trainer that was another hundred and twenty pounds. Her walking also didn't help my tired state, but I think that was the point of her carrying me, she wanted me to get some rest as she carried me to the next town, I finally gave into her plan as I started to see the lights of the next city from over the hill Amethyst carried me up, I was out like a light.

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I groaned as I stretched from my resting place and sat up, surprised to feel how soft the world around me felt. When I looked around, I saw that I was in a room in a pokemon center, my pokemon were at my sides, Amethyst sleeping on the edge of my bed next to me and Amber curled up against where my chest had been when I was laying down. I sighed and got up from my bed, knowing fully well that the party for the S.S. Anne was tomorrow late morning into early night before it takes off. In the time frame of a day, I'd have to buy the things I'd need for myself and battle the gym leader Surge so I can move onto the next town before the boys find me again so I just get out of here.

I walked toward my shower and took a quick one, washing my clothes in the process while I was in there and when I had finished, feeling clean and refreshed, I saw both my pokemon were awake and waiting for me.

"Thanks for getting me here girls, I don't know what came over me yesterday, but I know I was tired." Both my pokemon nodded understandingly and we hurried downstairs to the first floor, there Nurse Joy was waiting for us so I could reassure the worried woman that I was only tired last night when my pokemon brought me in (since she feared I was sick or something) and we got some breakfast before I walked over to the video chat phone and called up Luke. It was his day off today so he should be up by now (it helps because I slept in late due to how tired I was and I think the boys were kept up in town due to Team Rocket yesterday, and you know police these days, its takes them a while to sort threw everything, so I had time.)

"Hello?" Luke answered, his voice sounded much better then it had the day before when he was overtired from taking a double shift.

"Hey sleepy head, get enough shut eye?" I questioned him playfully and my pokemon and I looked through the screen to see him.

"Hey you guys! Sorry about yesterday, I was out of it really badly," he replied with a nervous scratching to the back of his head.

"You're telling me, after yesterday, I was so tired that after we got out of the underground pass that led under Saffron City, Amethyst had to carry me to the Vermilion City pokemon center since I fell asleep on her back."

"Okay, how'd that happen? You run into your brother and best friend?"

"Yeah, I ran into them, and I ran into Team Rocket in Mt. Moon and on route twenty-four and in the building last night between Saffron and Cerulean. I took in another pokemon to my team that I sadly can't bring with me on my journey because of how badly injured she is and left her with Bill, the pokemaniac, and I was given a book on techniques for pokemon to learn, one of which I'll be showing Amethyst this morning." I took a deep breath after that long explanation.

"Damn, am I missing anything else?" he questioned sarcastically with a laugh.

"Well," I thought aloud. "Inside Mt. Moon I saved a guy from Team Rocket since his fossils were about to be stolen and the book I got yesterday was from a man who was stolen from by Team Rocket who was after the very book I have in my bag."

I saw Luke shook his head. "You have the craziest adventures when I'm on shop detail."

I snickered. "Don't I know it, it's like I'm a magnet for trouble no matter where I go."

"We all know that Violet." Luke snorted. "Tell us something we don't know."

"Um… I won my second gum badge and I'm going on a cruise?" Luke's eyes nearly popped from his head and his jaw dropped as he looked at me.

"You're not really going are you? What about your journey?" Luke suddenly questioned me.

"Relax! I'm not planning on staying on there for the tour of the world; I'm just going to stay there for the party to have some fun and train against other people there. I got the ticket from Bill and he's letting me go in his place since he hates parties, and he wanted to pay me back after I used his machine to turn him back into a human from a clafairy."

"Wait, he turned himself into a pokemon?" I sighed.

"Luke, this is an incredibly long story, so why don't I start off from where I last talked to you before Mt. Moon on route three?" From there I dived into my story of my passage and training through the mountain and how I met that Team Rocket woman again, Rose, and how I beat her and save the guy that I escorted to the city. From there I told him about my win at Misty's gym and my trip up the nugget bridge to route twenty-four and twenty-five before I ended up running into the guys again, running from the police, helping the older man get back his books that were stolen and having Amethyst carry me all the way back to Vermilion because I was too tired to walk.

Luke whistled when I finally finished my story and shook his head. "Your life will never be dull, that's for sure Violet." He finally said to me as early afternoon started to set in. "You know, with that cruise your going on, I bet that dress you'll have to get will be a pain to carry around."

"Don't I know it, and I only have enough room in here for a certain amount of things." I sighed. "I'll probably donate it after I use it, or I could try and just rent one for the night."

"Or you could send them here to my place," he offered. "I don't mind keeping a few of your things stored here, just not too many or else some people will get suspicious, like your Mom if she comes to the town for shopping."

"Would your really do that Luke?" I asked softly.

"I wouldn't have said so if I didn't mean it."

"That would be so much of a help. You see, I've got some pretty weird items here in the bag and more valuable ones too that would get in the way if I found any more stuff. I have nuggets, potions, moon stones, mushrooms, berries; the list goes on and on. But the items are pretty small; you just need a box or something to put them in."

"Sounds like a plan then, why don't you go out shopping and get that last badge today so you can bolt from town after the party?"

"That sounds like a good idea Luke, I'll get all the things I need today and prepare for the ship tomorrow, I'll talk to you tomorrow then when I have everything ready to head over to the S.S. Anne."

"And I'll be waiting here Violet, I got an extra couple days off for my work anyway. See ya!"

"Bye Luke!" We ended the call there and I turned to face my pokemon. "Well girls, lets go, we got a day of shopping to take care of before our gym battle later today."

Witch's Note:

So Violet's going on a nice cruise! Isn't that nice? I wonder who else will end up on that ship? I'll give you a few guesses who. I thought it be best not to talk about the shopping, Violet's gonna be busy for a little while, and I think that next gym battle will be emotionally draining (for one person anyway.)

See you all next time and don't forget to Review and send in any Questions! Please? I don't have that many right now and I'd love to hear from all of you guys to know what you think of my story! Please!

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